(1) to clip one's wings; (2) wingback; (3) under the wing of; (4) to take wing; (5) in the wings; (6) wingtip; (7) wingding; (8) on the wing; (9) wing and wing; (10) wing chair; (11) wingman; (12) right (or left) wing; (13) to wing it (from 19th-century actors who went onstage to replace an absent player without knowing their part. Prompters in the wings fed them their lines).